President Lyndon B. Johnson, seated with his childhood schoolteacher, Kate Deadrich Loney, delivers remarks after signing the Elementary and SecondaryEducation Act on April 11, 1965 at the former Junction Elementary School near Stonewall, Texas.
On the flip side, the proponents of recent educational reforms won 7 of 8 elected seats on the state Board of Elementary and SecondaryEducation (BESE).